Kevin Rudd (Griffith, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

The Leader of the Opposition has objected to a series of questions that have been posed to him about whether he supports investment in each of these schools. He could use the device—and I challenge him to use the device—used yesterday by our good friend the member for Canning, who stood up in this place and said that he supported the investment in his electorate, that he supported the borrowing to support the investment in his electorate and that he supported the schools that were funded as a consequence of that investment and borrowing. The procedures of the House have the facility available for the Leader of the Opposition to stand up at the conclusion of question time and say, on each of these schools that I have presented, whether or not he supports the investment in those schools and the borrowing to underpin the investment in those schools. That is his challenge, pure and simple.

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